So, many years ago, I tried and failed to get several of the sets from the Battle for Azeroth Content, the Warfronts, a sadly abandoned bit of content in WoW where you engage in a PvE or PvP battleground, either against NPCs or other Players, set to the theme of the Warcraft III RTS Game in a kind of way, if that makes sense?
Go out, claim nodes, collect resources, build up your buildings, then go sack the enemy Main Camp and get shiny rewards.
Now, for a couple of weeks, I’ve been running these sporadically trying to get the Mail ‘Skirt’ Leggings from Darkshore but I’ve gotten everything but the damn thing, and I’ve still got items from every other class set, from both the Arathai Highlands and the Darkshore, that I need to farm up.
With just ten players who have unlocked Warfronts in Battle for Azeroth, the whole event takes anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes to complete, by collecting resources, building up the buildings and then laying siege to the enemy boss. Even at level 80, with a 600-ilevel toon, the content is laughably easy. Level 70’s can also join and tend to have little issue so long as they aren’t pulling horrendous amounts of enemies.
So I want to try to arrange a specific day and time for the server to pull together some characters and some alts to run this content, the same way we used to arrange weekly runs on older content for transmog, such as the ICC runs, the Firelands runs and even the chaotic mess that was the Shadowlands Run for Fun(?) group.
I’m thinking Saturday afternoon or night, probably anywhere from 3pm server time to 9pm server time. As I’m 15 hours ahead of server time, being down here in Oz, that puts it roughly about 6am to 12pm as a possible window, but at this point, we’re just spitballing what could work for the largest group of people.
I’d prefer Server Groups because Off-Server folks tend to … I want to say ‘problematic’, but that was just three of the seventeen attempts I’ve made over the past month, and they were all quickly kicked and reported for their nonsense. That said, if you have friends on other servers who also want to come, great.
What you will need to Qualify for Warfront Content:
- Be level 65 or higher (We’ve tested up to 70, we are assuming that level 60 or higher will also work)
- Have done the Questline to get the Heart of Azeroth (You can pick this quest up from any Earthen tagged as ‘Messenger of the Speaker’ in Boraleus or Dazar’lor)
- Have unlocked Warfronts by either by doing the first part of the https://www.wowhead.com/quest=52749/the-war-campaign quest chain and unlocking at least ONE major outpost on either the Zandalari or Kul’tiran homeland for your faction. (That means Alliance must have at least one base on Zandalar, and the Horde must have at least one base on Kul’tiras.)
- You must complete the Uniting Kul’Tiras/Zandalar Quest which is basically a click accept and get victory noises once you’re high level enough.
Once you have done this, the NPC (Alliance can go to Ralston Karn, Horde can go to Throk), these quests unlock the Arathai Highlands, but you can also just queue and get both the Normal and Heroic versions of the Warfront Quests, and we can confirm, doing the Heroic Version grants the reward for both versions, so that’s two chances at shiny transmog loot.
Alliance : https://www.wowhead.com/quest=53194/to-the-front
Horde : https://www.wowhead.com/quest=53208/to-the-front
The Darkshore Warfront requires Alliance to do : https://www.wowhead.com/quest=53847/on-whispered-winds
And the Horde to do https://www.wowhead.com/quest=54042/trouble-in-darkshore
Set aside about 30 minutes for the Darkshore Questlines as you must do them to access the Darkshore Warfront Questlines reliably as there’s bug involved where people who haven’t done them can sometimes not receive the quests or turn them in despite being able to join a group heading to Darkshore.
It is a lot of "Push this, pull here, twist that, slap what?" nonsense on Blizzard’s behalf, but heck it, transmog shinies.
If you’re interested, if you have a better time for the run, if you want to throw heavy furniture at my head or otherwise, drop a post in here and let’s get this show on the road.